Sebastian's slow blog

Ten Tips for Writing CS Papers, Part 1

As a non-native English speaker I can relate to the challenge of writing
concise and clear English.
Scientific writing is particularly challenging because the audience is only
partially known at the time of writing: at best, the paper will still …

Part 2

History of Monte Carlo Methods - Part 1

Some time ago in June 2013 I gave a lab tutorial on Monte Carlo methods at
Microsoft Research. These tutorials are seminar-talk length (45 minutes) but
are supposed to be light, accessible to a general computer science audience,
and fun …